50MHz Marathon

Recently I started participating in the 50MHz marathon. It is a great idea of contesting in 6m. All info is located in the page http://6m.dy.fi (The Six Meter Marathon 2007 5th of May to 5th of August, as described exactly). I have worked 18 different countries till now. Not a so good score but the whole fun is the competition! So if you find the idea interesting just join us.
Here they are my contacts:

date:__	time:__	dxcc:__	call:__	mode:__
10/05	1653	UT	UR0MC	ssb
13/05	1430	DL	DQ5R	SSB
13/05	1434	HB	HB9ZCV	SSB
13/05	1434	F	F5RBB	SSB
20/05	1640	SU	SU1SK	SSB
21/05	1520	SV	SV8AXZ	SSB
21/05	1523	I	IZ7FLS	SSB
21/05	1525	CT	CQ0ODX	SSB
22/05	1556	A7	A71EM	SSB
13/05	1628	EA	EA3IE	SSB
23/05	1001	TA	TA7A	SSB
23/05	1714	YO	YO8MI	SSB
23/05	1843	EA6	EA6CC	SSB
24/05	0748	SP	SP9LCV	SSB
24/05	0800	OK	OK2KR	SSB
24/05	0801	OM	OM3ZAS	SSB
24/05	0805	HA	HA6NF	SSB
24/05	0812	YU	YU7AZ	SSB

EU PSK DX contest

Poor propagation comparing with the previous years. In spite of this, a lot of guys participated and the party had a lot of fun. It was very nice to meet around old men members of the EPC club. I made only 181 contacts in all bands and I got 45708 points. No USA stations heard this time and very few from far east and South America. We hope next year things will go better.

Sporadic E! Great openings

The most exciting ham events of this period they are the great openings mostly in 6m band due sporadic E . Almost every afternoon lot of European stations are being heard and the band is full of life. Last Sunday, 13-05-2007 I made 41 QSO using a long wire and the good old one IC-7000. I was in my second QTH and no beam was available but that turned out to be no obstacle. Later in the evening, Spiros (SV8CS) and me we went to our special location up to the hill chasing ST2A but we aren' t so lucky. Never mind, next time will be! Instead we worked a bunch of IT9's in 2m.

BS7H challenge

The most crowded DXpedition of the year. Very difficult to work it in Europe and USA I think. Only Japan was happy I am afraid. Making alive a so rare entity it is really a mess. Lot of QRM makers all the time in the frequency and huge split rage made things worse. On the other hand I realize how difficult the situation was for the team upon these tiny rocks. Somebody said that Scarborough reef will disappear soon due to the warming effect of the planet. So it was the last chance to work it. I did it only on 17m SSB and 20m SSB so far, spending several hours of shouting. Now only two days (I will try 15m tomorrow) of operation have left. I wish them good luck and safe journey back.

PS. The contact in 15m finally done!
The snap is from the 1995 expedition.